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Emacs lets you easily write plugins in python? It's been a while since I used it, but I remember an awful lot of parens any time I wanted to customize somethin
by mrgoldenbrown 14y ago
Emacs lets you easily write plugins in python? It's been a while since I used it, but I remember an awful lot of parens any time I wanted to customize something.
- jasonm23 14y agoWell, the lisp factor is obviously an issue, for people who aren't interested in learning another language, but that's knowledge friction. It's not particularly difficult to learn Lisp, it needs a nice syntax highlighter to dim away all the parens, but really, it's a very simple language. I'm sure you could write some bad-ass shit if you gave it a little attention. There are python -> emacslisp bindings available, but I can't speak to that, regarding completeness / stability etc. Frankly I wouldn't suggest anyone waste their time doing that. But really with such a HUGE resource of functions / libraries, (and some of the cooler features of Lisp, I mean have you seen the loop macro!?) ... it's a bit of a waste to pass it up over its "(( big ears ))"